Kristi Skeem
Practical, goal-focused counseling for life transitions
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristi
Kristi Skeem is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of counseling experience. She combines practical strategies with a direct, warm approach. Kristi listens without judgment and helps people break big problems into manageable steps.
She works with issues like stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and career transitions. Kristi draws on a mix of approaches to guide her work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses Client-Centered principles to keep sessions grounded in the client’s goals and experience. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques come into play when people need short-term, goal-oriented planning. Her background includes work in drug and alcohol programs and correctional settings, alongside roles with diverse community groups.
That experience shaped a practical style focused on rebuilding strengths and creating new routines. She also brings experience supporting people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment and personality concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and control problems, and forgiveness. Kristi is based in Idaho and offers services in English.
She has worked with people facing modern identity questions around online versus real-life personas, and with those affected by sexual shame or problematic sexual behaviors. Sessions emphasize clear steps, personal responsibility, and steady progress toward the client’s goals.
How Kristi’s approaches work online
Kristi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify patterns of thinking that lead to stress or low mood, then practice new thinking and behavior in daily life. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set concrete, short-term goals and build steps toward them. Motivational Interviewing helps when change feels hard by exploring a person’s own reasons for wanting to shift behavior and strengthening their commitment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristi will talk with clients about their situation, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation easier. These formats let people connect from home, on a break, or while traveling, and they support ongoing, consistent work between appointments. The online options are meant to increase flexibility and help clients maintain momentum toward their goals.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point